“ 赤日炎炎似火烧,野田禾稻半枯焦。农夫心内如汤煮,公子王孙把扇摇。”说的是大暑天酷热难熬。然而,读书写字,是做文人一乐,又可消暑。兄弟在下便有此乐,根据中国被封禁的《说蝉》讽诗,试用英文说说它的意境,便成就了底下的诗文。携来同大众共乐消暑。独乐乐不如众乐乐。不在黄泥岗喝蒙汗酒消暑,在自由的阳光底下,舔尝冰淇凌,降温却会增加血糖浓度。
说蝉
闭嘴!
说你呢,
高高在上
一片呱噪;
平添几分燥热,
自以为聪明
肥头大耳
土堆裡
蛰伏
5年以上
才爬出阴间,
却只会用屁股,
唱夏日的赞歌,
不知人间疾苦酷暑。
Talking about a Cicada
Sh-u-u-u-t U-u-u-p!
It’s You.
Spitting noisy fussy words,
Hovering over while pouring down scorching heat,
To increase steaming summer temperature.
How smart a narcissist!
You see yourself in the mirror
But bearing a greasy face and two fat-piggy ears.
Creeping out of mud through five-year’s metamorphosis,
Ascending from netherworld up to heaven.
Not yet a mouth being evolved into singing,
Instead of asshole chanting: Ode to Summer.
So simple, so naïve to know nothing
About a miserable summer in the human world.